Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocities

Engineer who quit over military drone project warns AI might also accidentally start a war

A new generation of autonomous weapons or “killer robots” could accidentally start a war or cause mass atrocities, a former top Google software engineer has warned.

Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google last year in protest at being sent to work on a project to dramatically enhance US military drone technology, has called for all AI killing machines not operated by humans to be banned.